Construction has begun on the 1st plaza along the Prayer Path at the Monastery. A series of 5 plazas will line the path from the Monastic Heritage Center to the Monastery and Abbey Church. Each plaza will feature rough-sawn board formed concrete walls with blue stone panels/plaques commemorating donors and/or their loved ones. The following images are water color renderings of our proposed design for the Prayer Path and individual plazas. The water colors were done by Iain St

Our project in Duluth, St Marlow Residence, is complete. The project included a backyard transformation with a new pool, firepit area, patio, and deck. A new entry removed a 20 foot tall west facing window wall replacing it with a new double entry and portico. We also completed a full basement renovation. Our team included Core Landscape Architects and Keiffer Phillips Patricia Brown Builders . St Marlow Residence Images: Entry St. Marlow Residence New double entry doors and

This custom “Not so Big House” design has a great story behind it. Located on a tight corner lot in the Lynwood park neighborhood of Brookhaven, the concept behind the design is a home that looks as if it has been here for decades. Additionally, it appears as if the neighborhood developed around it. The Home Design A southern facing front porch orients the house towards the corner and creates a side entry porch from the east facade similar to a Charleston home. A tight budge

A Marietta client came to Jones Pierce looking for ideas to update the curb appeal of his split level home. His goal was not to renovate or remodel the interior spaces. Rather, he wanted update the exterior appearance of his home through minor cosmetic changes. The Not So Extreme Makeover The client found our Not So Extreme Makeover which allows us, as architects, to get involved no matter what the budget is. The process is an affordable way to get ideas for improving your ho

Construction is progressing, and the finishes are starting to go in at the front house at Lanier Enclave. Check out these progress pictures from this week. The porch fireplace is complete. Porch ceiling has yet to be installed. The house even has a custom mailbox to match the prairie style! Inside the kitchen, cabinets are almost complete. Countertops are yet to be installed. Lots of windows bring light into the living room. Cabinets and shelves are complete in the mud room.

Is there room for more? We currently have a client, a young couple, who lives in a Virginia Highlands bungalow. They love their home and would never want to leave it. However, with a baby on the way, the home will soon be too small for the family. With the assistance of CORE Landscape Architects, we are helping this couple expand their Virginia Highlands home to make room for a family, while keeping the charm and character of the original bungalow. Expanding the Bungalow The

Here are the latest construction photos from a Lanier Enclave’s Front House. This is a custom home with Prairie style influences located in Virgina Highlands. This is the 3rd and final home in the infill development known as Lanier Enclave, located on Lanier Blvd. This home and the two completed are being built by Abraham Properties. Sheathing is complete, and windows have been installed all throughout the house. Here is a view on the back porch, looking in towards the house.

These Atlanta clients have undergone several small renovations and additions to their home over the years. Now, they are coming to Jones Pierce to help them bring cohesiveness to their ranch style home. They are hoping this renovation will transform their home into a Lifetime Home for their family. To add cohesiveness to the ranch home, we started by re-organizing the first level, opening up space for a Mother-in-Law Suite. The new living space opens the home up to woods at t

Dunwoody Ranch Facelift A Dunwoody Ranch gets a front yard facelift when a new entry and courtyard takes cues from Japanese Zen gardens, while maintaining handicapped accessibility. From the approach, the transformation begins at the new exposed aggregate driveway. The driveway gets interrupted by radiating bands of sandstone finished concrete, whose axis are centered on one embedded flagstone paver. From there, the new frosted glass garage door and timber pergola add anoth

The Monastery of the Holy Spirit will host a free Monastery Grand Open House Event on Saturday, Oct. 1, from 10:00am to 5:00pm, to celebrate the new Monastic Heritage Center. We welcome all visitors and invite them to experience everything the Monastery has to offer. All are invited to Explore our newly opened Monastic Heritage Center, featuring: Interactive Museum Abbey Gift Shop Bonsai Garden Café Bonsai Store and Bonsai Pottery Sales Memorial Plaza and Prayer Walk. This

Here are the latest interior construction progress photos from our project, Lanier Enclave Middle House. The project is scheduled to be completed by the end of September. The home is being built by Abraham Properties and is for sale here. The exterior of Lanier Middle House is complete, shifting all focus to the interior. Take note of the window design detail! On the interior, all trim-work and built-in shelving is complete. This construction crew is doing a great job paying

Industries provide more information to assess their products than potential home buyers have at their disposal. It is crazy if you think that most people’s largest investment is their house. It’s not just the mortgage system that needs help, but the appraisals that mortgages are based on that need fixing. If we had a better system of assessing the value of a house and the property it sits on independent of one another, the real estate bubbles we witnessed would not be so infl

May 7, 2011 marked the Grand Opening of the Monastic Heritage Center at the Monastery of the Holy Spirit in Conyers, Georgia. Friday night, we kicked off the celebration with a private donor recognition dinner that included a tour, entertainment, and several guest speakers including the Abbot and Vince Dooley. The facility includes a newly constructed Abbey Store & Cafe, a Visitor center, a Historic Barn, a Gallery Barn, a Greenhouse and Bonsai sales area, a contemplative caf

This residence is a Southern Colonial themed home created with a unique thought process. The house sits on a 2-lot site overlooking the Brookhaven Country Club. Our clients wished foremost to capture a bit of their native Louisiana. Therefore, after a year-long planning process, the result is a home that projects the timeless authenticity of deep south architecture. However, it still incorporates the most up-to-the-minute sustainable building technology in an unobtrusive way.

We have just completed construction on 1141 Lanier Blvd, our first LEED certified home! This is the first home of Lanier Enclave, a 3 custom home development in Virginia Highlands. We refer to this home as “Creek House.” The unique pie shape of the “Creek House” comes from tight lot restrictions that include a 75′-0″ stream buffer to the side of the home. The classic Prairie style home fits well into the old Atlanta neighborhood, but also brings touches of modern living and d

Here are some interior progress photos of Creek House in Virginia Highlands. This home will be LEED-For-Homes certified. It is being built by Abraham Properties and is expected to be completed in January. The family room of creek house will contain stained coffers, a masonry fireplace, and a TV cabinet. The masonry and trim-work is completed. The dining room trim work is complete in Creek House. Trim work is complete in the formal living room and kitchen. Cabinets are up in t

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Lanier Enclave Lanier Enclave is a new three-home development in Virginia Highlands neighborhood of Atlanta. All three homes will be prairie style and designed by Jones Pierce. “Creek House” is the first of these homes to be built. It is located at the rear of the property, along the creek. The unique shape of the home is due to the tight restrictions of the lot, including a 75 foot stream buffer. This home is LEED-for-Homes certified! Lanier Enclave Site Plan Creek House Ba

This Decatur Residence was recently renovated into a style we call the “American Bungalow.” Standing Out, While Fitting In Establishing a recognizable style, whether designing a new home or undertaking a renovation, is, for an architect, a principal concern. It is through this method that rules are established, guiding all of the decisions made throughout the design process. The style also leads to a strong “message” about what the owner feels for the house, and what the hou

A Home for the Pro One of Atlanta’s premeir home builders is bringing back a long neglected historic home in Ansley Park for John Wieland. Jones Pierce conducted due diligence to understand the life of the house and make sense of its many renovations and additions over the years. This helped us make decisions about what to preserve, what to recreate, and what to discard from the Wieland Residence. Through our research we uncovered forgotten details, both architectural and of